Means of dyeing



Au 23, 1938. F HEDEN 2,127,595

I MEANS OF DYEING Filed Nov. 27, 1936 Patented Aug. 23, 1938 7 2,127,595

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFleE MEANS OF DYEING Folke Heden, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Fred Fear & (30., Brooklyn, N. Y, a corporation of New York Application November 2'7, 1936, Serial No. 112,924

6 Claims. (Cl. ill-12) This invention relates to improvements in a than one notch or opening for each dye body method and means of dyeing articles, and parmay be employed, and in the case of a dye body ticularly Easter eggs. of a single color a plurality of notches or open- The invention involves a support for the dyes ings may likewise be employed. It will be clear constructed of a material so that it will float in a fromFigure 2 that these notches expose the dye liquid such as water. This support is provided bodies to the action of the water.

with one or more dyes, preferably in solid form, In use the container or ring is deposited on such as colored waxes, and a series of openings the surface of a body of water, which is prefthrough which the dye or dyes may gradually erably heated to the point of boiling. The conseep onto the surface of the liquid in which the tact between the hot water and the colored bodies v container floats and in the space defined by the through the notches or openings ll causes a container. gradual seepage of these dyes onto the surface of The many objects which result from the use the water within the ring, as indicated at 20 in of a device of this type, as well as the method, Figure T y mpl y as w be n e I will be set forth in full detail below. above, are of the type which will float on the sur 15 This invention resides substantially in the face of the water and will not be dissolved in it or apparatus and method as defined in the followbleed down into the body of the water. Where ing specification when taken in connection with the support does not form an enclosed area, the the attached drawing and pointed out in the sides of the vessel containing the liquid in which claims. the support floats will limit the area of the dye In the drawing-- film. The film thus formed in either case blocks Figure 1 is a plan View of the device of this the groov to pr v n f rth r e pa un il h invention illustrated diagrammatically as fioatfi is depleteding on the surface of a body of water; and The egg or other body to be colored, as indi- Figure 2 is a cross-sectional View taken on the cated by the dot and dash line is Submerged 25 line 22 of Figure 1. in the body of water down through the color film The support In is shown in the form of an 20 within the ring until it is completely subannulus having a groove on its upper surface, as mergedt is then Withdrawn p through the is clear from Figure 2. This annulus, or ring, laye 0 60 w ic has become ixed into may have any suitable cross-sectionand any suit- Variegated marbled COIlfigllratiOn 50 t a able shape without departure from the invention. coat or fi f the color h r s to e urfa e The ring is preferably of closed configurati n, of the object. As the object is withdrawn through but may be octagonal, hexagonal, circular, trithe color film, and a substantial portion of the angular, rectangular, and in fact an f but coloring material withdrawn, the action of the preferably defining an enclosed area, Th uphot water on the color bodies through the notches per surface may be formed in an way t prois repeated so that additional colors are melted vide a container, as for example it may b and flow onto thesurface of the water. grooved, as shown in the drawing, Th support It has been found that as soon as the area with- ID need not be closed however, but may be open in the ring is completely filmed With y the fi at one side or may even be a strai ht ba or a blocks off the notches and prevents any further solid polygon. seepage of color or dye until after a depletion of In the groove thus formed is placed one or t e fi by passage of an Object through y more dyes or coloring materials. It is preferable reason of this t j a Silfficient o t of to use colored waxes, that is oil soluble dyes, or y s pp for each application o 00101" to water soluble dyes incorporated in oil. There t j t. a t r which a fresh pp y ps nt 45 r many ell kno n forms of dyes of thi the surface of the water. From experience it has ture which are suitable for the purpose. The b found that the replenishing o t e dye film groove formed in the ring is filled with one or is quite rapid, so that little time is lost between more of these dyes. As illustrated in Figure 1, the dyeing of successive objects.

three different colors H 12*, and I2 are shown As .noted above, the container may be made 50 in thering in separate contiguous bodies of of any material which will float on water, such arcuate form. as wood, plastic compositions, and the like. Any

The ring is provided on its inner lip with one material having a specific gravity lower than or more notches or openings H, one for each that of water will sufiice for the purpose, so long of the different dye bodies. In some cases more as it is not materially affected by the hot water. 55

From the above description it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the invention is not limited in its scope to the particular form illustrated in the drawing, but may be varied considerably by those skilled in the art without departure from the true scope thereof. I do not, therefore, desire to be strictly limited to the disclosure, as given for the purpose of illustration.

I claim:

1. A device as described comprising a container adapted to flat on water, said container having a plurality of apertures in the wall at the water line, and a body of dye in the container which is not miscible with water, the dye being exposed to the water through said apertures.

2. In a device of the type described the combination comprising an apertured container capable of floating on water, said container having I a plurality of dye bodies mounted therein so as to contact with the water through said apertures, whereby the dye may seep through the apertures onto the surface of the water adjacent the container.

3. A device of the type described comprising a ringlike body having a plurality of apertures on the inner wall, dye bodies of different colors mounted on said ringlike body so as to contact the water through said apertures, whereby the dyes may seep through the apertures onto the surface of the water in which the ringlike member floats.

4. A device of the type described comprising a grooved ring capable of floating on water, the inner wall of the groove having a plurality of apertures therein, a plurality of bodies of dyes mounted in the groove so as to be exposed to water when the ring floats thereon through said apertures whereby the dye seeps onto the surface of the water over the area within the ring.

5. A device as described comprising a support adapted to float on a liquid, said support having a plurality of apertures in the wall at the liquid line, and a body of dye in the container not miscible with the liquid, the dye being exposed to the liquid through said apertures whereby the formation of a film on the surface of the liquid by seepage through the apertures blocks them until the film is depleted.

6. A device as described comprising a support capable of floating on water and having an opening therethrough and a body of water insoluble dye on the support so as to be in contact with the water, when the body floats thereon, exposed in the opening of the support to form a dye film on the water, confined by the support.

FOLKE HEDEN.

CERTIFICATE OFC'ORRECTION. Patent No. 2,127,595. August 2 195 FOLKE HEDEN It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification f the above numb ered patent requiring correction as follows; Page; 2,' first column, line l2, claim l,'for the word "flat" read float; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may cenfonn to the" record of the case 1n the'.Petent Office.

Signed and sealed'this 18th day 'of. October, A. D.; 1958. v

. Henry Van Arsdale (Seal) Acting "(iommissipner of Patents. 

